Watch the gripping first 20 mins of Apple TV+'s spy thriller 'Slow Horses'

The series stars Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Pryce, Jack Lowden, and Olivia Cooke.
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Gary Oldman, Rosalind Eleazar and Dustin Demri-Burns in “Slow Horses"
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We love a good spy thriller. Especially a show about Britain's MI5.

Well, you're in for a treat. The first two episodes of Apple TV+'s Slow Horses are available to stream now, and to mark its launch, the streaming service released the first 20 minutes of episode 1 on YouTube.

Starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Pryce, Jack Lowden, and Olivia Cooke, the darkly funny spy drama follows a chaotic team of disgraced intelligence agents who've been shifted to the service's dumping ground, known as Slough House, for their sins. Oldman plays Jackson Lamb, the chain-smoking, straight-talking boss of the disgraced agents.

The series was adapted for television by Veep screenwriter Will Smith and directed by James Hawes.

The clip from episode 1 shows us how River Cartwright (Lowden) is ousted from MI5 for colossally messing up an operation. It's an edge-of-your seat moment that sadly turns into a career-ending error for the agent, securing his spot in Slough House.

To find out what comes next, you'll have to keep watching.

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Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.


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